Great Gatsby
The iconic novel The Great Gatsby is set in the "Roaring Twenties" in New York City. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald used the setting and the cultural era to great effect, as his characters, their parties and extravagant lifestyles -- and conversations -- offer readers a good glimpse into the American that existed during those years. This paper points to the details of the period, and this paper agrees with the statement that Fitzgerald was in fact making a comment on the era of the Twenties, the new rich that had come into money in that time period, and their values.
The Great Gatsby
What can we learn from the novel about New York in the 1920s? We can learn that there was certainly racial segregation, and fear of the black community by the rich upper crust white community was a reality. Whether this was culturally exact or not at that time in New York, is beside the point, although one can assume Fitzgerald wasn't that far off since the rest of his descriptive narrative about the era was close to accurate.
The novel establishes a racist tone and...
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